Maxwell

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Maxwell

Maxwell

@mvxgreenberg

Joint PhD candidate @UWHistoryDept and @UWMadisonEPS. Writing a dissertation about Junior Achievement and youth entrepreneurial education. Former teacher.

Madison, WI Katılım Ocak 2015
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Maxwell@mvxgreenberg·
My article in @HistEdQuarterly on politics and the creation of the German language course in the Milwaukee Public Schools in the mid-late 19th century is now available: doi.org/10.1017/heq.20… I like to think that it offers lessons for related contemporary political issues.
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Maxwell@mvxgreenberg·
Congratulations, Erik. Erik's work has been hugely influential on my own. He showed me that the history I'm working on about Junior Achievement and entrepreneurial education is not only possible but also important. Glad to see he is getting the recognition he deserves.
Erik Baker@erikmbaker

I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. oah.org/2026/03/26/oah…

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Maxwell@mvxgreenberg·
The Discourse™️ on the Compact piece is stimulating, but I haven’t seen many people talk about the culling process that happens well before the job market stage. Plenty to unpack about who attends what institutions and why and how funding packages might impact scholarly quality.
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Being on the academic job market in a different discipline, it’s completely disorienting seeing how Econ departments and professors publicly go up to bat for their candidates. Numerous tweets, entire departmental web pages about their candidates. Why doesn’t history do this?
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Maxwell@mvxgreenberg·
@benchansfield Appleby's "The Vexed Story of Capitalism" to generate discussion Jenkins and Leroy's "The Old History of Capitalism" in their edited volume for an accessible overview Sklansky's "Labor, Money, and the Financial Turn in the History of Capitalism" for changing trends in NHoC
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Bench Ansfield@benchansfield·
Suggestions for historiographical essays/chapters on the history of capitalism?? Putting together a graduate syllabus.
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@Tyler_A_Harper If we concede your premise, how do you think institutions would respond differently to the proliferation of AI if education was about content? The broader embrace of progressive pedagogy in the 21st c. was partly a reaction to the technological availability of content knowledge.
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Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·
AI obviates the need to master content, and insofar as decades worth of fashionable pedagogy had already framed memorization and content mastery as (at best) not the point of an education and (at worst) reactionary, educational institutions have a hard time seeing why AI is bad.
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Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·
Increasingly convinced the incessant claim that a humanities education is about "critical thinking"—rather than content mastery—is a scam designed to justify the humanities in "skill-building" terms that are legible within the university's new role as a credentialing bureaucracy.
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Maxwell@mvxgreenberg·
If any scholars or otherwise are interested in reading the article but don't have access, DM me! Many other scholars have done excellent research on progressive education and Americanization, and I hope my case study of the Milwaukee Public Schools offers something of interest.
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Maxwell@mvxgreenberg·
I'm dying to know who reviewer 2 was for my HEQ piece on Milwaukee's late 1860's district consolidation and the effort to Americanize the German population via a German language course. Their criticism invariably shaped the article. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1017/heq.20…
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Maxwell@mvxgreenberg·
@mnathantanner @HistEdQuarterly Thank you, Nathan! And a late congratulations on the job and on your article in the latest issue. Looking forward to reading as well. Critiques and comments on my piece warmly welcomed!
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Maxwell@mvxgreenberg·
My article in @HistEdQuarterly on politics and the creation of the German language course in the Milwaukee Public Schools in the mid-late 19th century is now available: doi.org/10.1017/heq.20… I like to think that it offers lessons for related contemporary political issues.
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Maxwell@mvxgreenberg·
@HistEdQuarterly I'd welcome any thoughts people have on my first published article, which, admittedly, has fallen far outside the purview of my current work save for the cultural emphasis. If anyone would like access to the article, feel free to DM me!
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@HistEdQuarterly The board was able to draw large swaths of German students out of the private and parochial schools, many of which taught primarily in German. Foreign language learning, district leaders argued, was not incompatible with Americanization. Rather, it was central to it.
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There’s a beautiful irony in the fact that Junior Achievement’s first Manhattan office occupied the same building that now houses @CunySLU.
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Erik Baker@erikmbaker·
Some people have suggested to me that the entrepreneurial work ethic may be in the midst of attenuating but for some reason I have my doubts
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Maxwell@mvxgreenberg·
I'm looking for a dissertation written in 1925 by Harvard graduate student Frank O. "FO" Kreager titled "Out-of-school education." Do I know anyone who can check Harvard's archival database or know where else I might look? It isn't available on ProQuest Dissertations. Thanks!
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“A good dissertation is a finished dissertation,” I tell myself as I rewrite the same paragraph for the seventh time.
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